How to format your references using the Journal of Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biosciences (JBSC). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Youle RJ 2007 Science 315 776–7

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers G and Dragert H 2003 Science 300 1942–3

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwasawa T, Hooley RJ, and Rebek J Jr 2007 Science 317 493–6

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Brennecke F, Ritter S, Donner T, and Esslinger T 2008 Science 322 235–8

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Colin A 2005 Fixed Income Attribution (Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

An edited book

Wang J, Ding Z, Zou L, and Zuo J (Eds) 2014 Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

Benesty J, Chen J, and Habets EAP 2012 Multichannel Speech Enhancement with Filters; in: Speech Enhancement in the STFT Domain (eds) J Chen and EAP Habets (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 77–92

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Biosciences.

Blog post

Andrews R 2015 How Well Did Back To The Future Predict Our Lives In 2015? https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/did-back-future-ii-actually-predict-world-2015/. Viewed 30 Oct 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office 1991 Tax System Modernization: Status of On-Line Files Initiative and Telecommunications Planning (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Jernigan MB 2013 Use of uprooted invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare ) parent plants as thatch to reduce progeny seedling emergence, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Hodgman J 2017 New York Times MM24

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Youle 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Rogers and Dragert 2003; Youle 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rogers and Dragert 2003)
Three or more authors: (Brennecke et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Biosciences
ISSN (print)	0250-5991
ISSN (online)	0973-7138
Scope